{"id":4290,"date":"2023-09-17T09:39:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T14:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=4290"},"modified":"2023-09-17T09:39:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T14:39:43","slug":"libya-the-anarchists-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2023\/09\/17\/libya-the-anarchists-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya &#8212; The Anarchists&#8217; Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thumbing through news in between NFL games.  Really not looking forward to going to the office this week.  Supposedly my access issues have been resolved so I can, you know, actually get to where I&#8217;m supposed to work without needing help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not going to delve too deeply into that for lots of reasons. But the entire situation has negatively affected my health pretty significantly.  So maybe a trip into the District sometime this week to see my PCP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I should not feel like this<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, for the people who are constantly reminding people how they&#8217;ve been right about everything all the time, and claim to be in favor of fractured government, or complete absence of government, I present Libya.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Libya really hasn&#8217;t had a functioning government since the Obama Administration quietly affirmed the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s overthrow of Gaddafi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s not been a functioning government, or even a series of cooperating governments in a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then there&#8217;s a storm, and you get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/09\/16\/world\/libya-flood-death-toll-rise-derna-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While COVID showed how government can be overbearing and ineffective, Libya shows how its absence can ensure that many people die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good job, Secretary Clinton.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Would this many people be dead if there was even a minimal government organizing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve often said that government is really good at two things:  breaking things, and killing people.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But since it is good at the latter, it can take minor steps to prevent it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thumbing through news in between NFL games. Really not looking forward to going to the office this week. Supposedly my access issues have been resolved so I can, you know, actually get to where I&#8217;m supposed to work without needing help. Not going to delve too deeply into that for lots of reasons. But the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scarred-brain-murmurings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}